(crowd cheering) >> narrator: but 2008 was not hillary clinton's year or john mccain's. >> barack obama is projected top be the next president. >> senator barack obama of illinois will be the next president. >> barack obama will be e 44th president of the united states. >> barack obama, 47 years old, will become the president of the united states. >> that night when he came out, the look on his face to me looked like someone who finally understood the weight of the job that he had just won. >> narrator: but that night, obama must have believed the bipartisan change he had promised was now within sight. >> americans sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. we are, and always will be, the united states of america. >> you have, in obama's case, gone within four years from being an illinois state politician to the most famous person on earth, and you have confiden in both your judgment i out what's the right way to go and your ability to make iouthat way. >> america can change.th our union can be perf